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    Finalist for the Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award!This is the story of Olga, a retired mathematician, and Mateo, a college student passionate about robotics, and their plot to influence Google."This book has excited me more than any that I have read this year."—Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal"This is a beautifully written, endlessly provocative meditation on humanity's relationship to ... Read more

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    Are good and bad outcomes significantly affected by the decision-making process itself? Indeed they are, in that certain decision-making techniques and practices limit the ability of policymakers to achieve their goals and advance the national interest.The success of policy often turns on the quality of the decision-making process. Mark Schafer and Scott Crichlow identify the factors that ... Read more

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  • Operational Code Analysis and Foreign Policy Roles

    Crossing Simon’s Bridge

    Series series Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
    In this book, senior scholars and a new generation of analysts present different applications of recent advances linking beliefs and decision-making, in the area of foreign policy analysis with strategic interactions in world politics.Divided into five parts, Part 1 identifies how the beliefs in the cognitive operational codes of individual leaders explain the political decisions of states. In ... Read more

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    States, Leaders, and the Microfoundations of Behavioral International Relations

    Series series Role Theory and International Relations
    Stephen G. Walker, Akan Malici, and Mark Schafer present a definitive, social-psychological approach to integrating theories of foreign policy analysis and international relations—addressing the agent-centered, micro-political study of decisions by leaders and the structure-oriented, macro-political study of state interactions as a complex adaptive system. The links between the internal world of ... Read more

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